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frhling1
frhling1

Reputation: 55

How to check if some processes are running

I want to check if Outlook, word, Excel, ... are running or not and list them like:
Microsoft Outlook is Running
Microsoft Word is not Running

I have written sth like this:
$ProcessName = "outlook" if((get-process $ProcessName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $Null) { echo "Process is not running" }else{ echo "Process is running" }

and that works for one Processname but do not know how to make more than one and list them.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 14068

Answers (4)

Digital Frog
Digital Frog

Reputation: 41

For those that find this later just an additional note to the above solutions: If you are testing whether Word is running, you need to search for the process "winword" instead of just "word"

@("outlook", "word", "winword") | ForEach-Object { 
if(($p=(Get-Process $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) -eq $null)   
{Write-Host "$_ not running"} 
else 
{Write-Host "$($p.Description) is running"}
}

yields the result:

Microsoft Outlook is running
word not running
Microsoft Word is running

For any others, open your Task Manager, right click on the process, select Properties and then use the filename portion (without the extension)

Upvotes: 1

Samuel_
Samuel_

Reputation: 177

Try this command:

Get-Process $processName -ErrorAction Stop

Upvotes: 0

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 62472

You can pass a list of processes in like this:

@("outlook", "word") | 
ForEach-Object 
{
  if((Get-Process $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) 
  {Write-Host "$_ not running"} 
  else 
  {Write-Host "$_ is running"}
}

NOTE: I've split this across multiple lines for readability.

If you want something a bit more descriptive you can use the Description property on the process if it exists:

@("outlook", "word") | 
ForEach-Object 
{ 
  if(($p=(Get-Process $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) -eq $null)   
  {Write-Host "$_ not running"} 
  else 
  {Write-Host "$($p.Description) is running"}
}

Note how it captures the result from Get-Process into $p and that we have to use the syntax $($p.Description) to print it in Write-Host.

Upvotes: 4

Deadly-Bagel
Deadly-Bagel

Reputation: 1620

There is a thousand ways you could achieve this. I'd go for something like this:

@(
    "Word",
    "Outlook",
    "Excel"
) | Foreach-Object {
    if (Get-Process $_ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
    { Write-Output "$_ is running" }
    else { Write-Output "$_ is not running" }
}

This is taking an array of whatever applications you want to check, then looping through them checking if they are running and displaying the appropriate output.

Upvotes: 2

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